| Where both forms of expression are used together, as in the present case, they may indeed tend to be mutually stultifying. |
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| There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than a life lived inside the confines of a theory. |
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| There is no doubt that the exterior material is beautiful, but it is also a bit stultifying in its quantity. |
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| Without the inclusion of this track, the disc feels nearly stultifying, but with it, altogether pleasant. |
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| For many of us, such a subdued, small town, near communitarian environment would feel repressive, stultifying. |
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| This is impressive in its way, but also self-serving, exhibitionistic, and ultimately stultifying. |
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| Like the first breath of spring after a long and stultifying winter, these first stirrings are signs of hope. |
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| But it was simultaneously stultifying, keeping me from developing the very objectives I sought. |
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| Whatever endangers the opportunity for inquiry and innovation threatens to make education dull and stultifying. |
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| But since existing political institutions are frustrating and stultifying, few people are willing to participate. |
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| Are the nations that lag bogged down by tradition, stultifying central control, or a culture of bureaucratic impediments? |
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| It was a laughable world with stultifying technological limitations that made half of society strabismic. |
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| I therefore totally reject this proposal, whose effect would be stultifying and regressive. |
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| Face up to it: the goal of ever-closer, stultifying political union is simply unobtainable! |
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| Compliance with tier upon tier of EU regulation is so demanding, so onerous and so expensive that it is stultifying EU output and prosperity. |
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| Remand and convicted inmates alike find the pace of prison life stultifying. |
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| Will Europe be able to sever links with the stultifying Atlantism that reduces its status to European flap of the American project? |
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| Why would anyone want to give up the dynamic resplendencies of the American Founders' vision for the stultifying servitude of ancient collectivism? |
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| The stultifying ugliness of a northern British industrial city is somehow transformed into a kind of wild beauty by the way the ratio opens up the image. |
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| Scotland's major task in the coming decades will be to outgrow the stultifying mentality of negativism and inferiority that has dogged the nation since the second world war. |
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| And yet, to his credit, he did not relish life in the stultifying European Parliament as some Lib Dems seem to. |
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| It began, for them all, with the urge to seek some form of liberty and escape the stultifying conventions of Regency England. |
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| Some small measure of this may be unobjectionable, but if the War on Terrorism takes as long as the administration warns, it will become unbearably stultifying. |
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| Garish handles, knobs and bases cast from Victorian lamps and furniture decorate her works, parodying the stultifying ornateness that marked the era. |
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| But even more, Michael Bryson has written a necessary book, one that attempts to overthrow the rather stultifying critical orthodoxy that presently governs Milton studies. |
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| There is an appalling and stultifying conformism in Australian politico-intellectual life, such that publications which do not conform are condemned and vilified. |
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| A better formula for stultifying research is beyond contemplation. |
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| One lesson from the early 1970s is that trying to centralize or organize all the community energies into one big movement is stultifying for everyone concerned. |
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| Against the Portuguese side, however, this seemed the product of facing a side as proficient in stultifying opponents as Celtic have proved in the past. |
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| The ubiquity of burgers has been overwhelming, and stultifying. |
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| Something stultifying seems to happen to some writers when they sit down to write An Editorial, Harrumph, Ahem. |
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| Katerina's Elegy is a profound lament on the stultifying boredom and oppressive misery this intelligent, energetic woman must endure as the wife of an uncaring merchant in feudal Russia. |
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| But as in previous periods of hot weather, some fraction of the population sought refuge in the one environment least likely to provide it: the stultifying streets of the breezeless city. |
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| Yet many of São Paulo's neighbourhoods possess humanizing features and individual characteristics belying the surface appearance of a stultifying similarity. |
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| They are fuelled by the country's stifling political environment and stultifying developmental process, compounded by a range of stupefying cruelties. |
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| The same rationale applies to teams or businesses escaping stultifying constraints in the large corporate context, and it is this that equips EFG with an inherent advantage in terms of both attraction and integration. |
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| During the latter half of the 19th century, two generations of Russian intellectuals underwent intense political ferment in search of means to throw off the stultifying tsarist yoke. |
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| And it matters because if it is ignored by those who care about global politics it will subsist in its stultifying greyness and be a deadweight on our dreams. |
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| Small wonder she believed, first, that formal education was stultifying, and second that computers, especially Macs, could shake everything up in the way she longed to see. Even sport pricked her defiance. |
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| If they are a means of excluding outsiders, they can be stultifying. |
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| The difficulty is to safeguard the heritage without stultifying it, encourage tourist development without disturbing traditional ways of life and their patterns of change. |
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| In reality, it was the West's imperial, and often violent, interventions and controls on these two countries that were instrumental in stultifying their economic development. |
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| Without a suitable outlet, research goes unpublished, leading to wasteful duplication of effort and stultifying science and agricultural development. |
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| Assessment procedures are stultifying and stagnate the mind. |
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| And, as audience members, we have all experienced death by PowerPoint, the comatose state that results from being subjected to one stultifying slide after another. |
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